Human Rights and Social Theory - Paperback

by Lydia Morris (Author)

This book examines the contribution social theory can make to understanding different human rights which operate in a variety of settings. Including an introduction to the theoretical issues raised by the study of rights, it covers a range of individual and collective rights, illuminating the relationship between social theory and human rights.

Author Biography

Lydia Morris is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and a member of the Human Rights Centre.

She is the author of The Workings of the Household (1991), Dangerous Classes (1994), Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal (2010) and the editor of Rights: Sociological Perspectives (2006).
Lydia Morris is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK, and a member of the Human Rights Centre.She is the author of The Workings of the Household (1991), Dangerous Classes (1994), Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal (2010) and the editor of Rights: Sociological Perspectives (2006).